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#1265052020-12-29
Language, Landscape and Our World of Many Worlds
“In our faith there is no heaven or hell,” spoke Mayalmit Lepcha in the Janata Parliament – an Indian people’s parliament which happened online this year, on account of COVID-19. Her network is spotty. She’s in the mountains. I listen hard and try to piece together what she’s saying. Mayalmit is ...
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#1280602021-04-14
Learn to use medicinal plants during Earth month
In April, we celebrate the earth and participate in activities such as tree plantings. Earth month is about the interconnectedness of people and nature, especially on Guam. The Chamoru people hold a deep connection to the land as I taotao tåno, and have traditional practices tied to plants and a ...
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#1284582021-05-06
Learning from Indigenous knowledge
Australia’s Indigenous peoples have been disenfranchised from control of their water. Despite holding recognised rights to over 40 per cent of Australia’s land, Indigenous people hold less than one per cent of its water. Australia’s current water framework, the National Water Initiative (NWI), h ...
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#1290532021-06-04
Linking modern science with Indigenous knowledge to care for the land
Professor of biodiversity Stephen Hopper says the world is struggling to care for biodiversity. The trend is down. In Australia, the damage has occurred in the last two hundred years, since European settlement.
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#1347982022-05-31
Listen to the communities – Disaster displacement is on the increase, and the affected people must be heard
More than 30 million people were displaced as a result of disasters in 2020 alone, and this number is likely to rise with the mounting severity and number of climate-related extreme events. A panel at the 7th Session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR2022), moderated by Sar ...
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#1298322021-08-09
Listening to voices of indigenous peoples is only way to protect people and planet – Spotlight on Guyana
Each year, on August 9, the United Nations (UN) celebrates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. The date marks the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations.
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#1334222022-02-22
Local communities around the globe warn of the disappearance of wild edible plants
Local and Indigenous communities warn of a significant decrease in the abundance of wild edible plants and mushrooms that negatively impacts their nutrition and food security, from local to global scales.
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#1234172019-12-12
Local traditional knowledge can be as accurate as scientific transect monitoring
New research from a cross-organisational consortium in the Amazon has found indigenous knowledge to be as accurate as scientific transect monitoring.
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#1260982020-12-09
Looking ahead to the 4th Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform Facilitative Working Group meeting
The third meeting of the Facilitative Working Group (FWG), which was the first official 2020 meeting of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, took place virtually between October 5 and 8.
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#1269452021-02-09
Meet the Indigenous scientist charting the future of fisheries
Like most salmon scientists, Andrea Reid spends months each year searching for the iconic fish in salty estuaries and along the silty riverbanks of B.C.’s glacial torrents.
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#1213702019-06-21
Meet the scientists embracing traditional Indigenous knowledge
From grizzly bears in areas undocumented by Western science to a possible new fast-running subtype of caribou, traditional knowledge is enriching scientific information about our natural world
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#1340662022-04-13
Mi'kmaw man leading Lennox Island to greener future with traditional knowledge
When Drew Bernard returned to Lennox Island three years ago, he found there wasn't a lot of work done in the community about energy.
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#1282782021-04-27
Mikaila Way ’12 Works with Indigenous Communities to Shape the Future of Food Systems
Throughout her childhood, Mikaila Way ’12 learned bits and pieces about the genocide waged against Indigenous peoples of North America, including forced displacement, forced assimilation in boarding schools, massacres and targeted killings. She did not forget.Today, Way works as the Indigenous p ...
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#1210822019-05-16
Millions of indigenous people face eviction from their forest homes
If upheld, a lawsuit by environmentalists in India could lead to millions of Adivasi being displaced from their ancestral lands.
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#1285382021-05-11
Mpumalanga traditional healers might run out of medicinal plants
Johannesburg – Healers blame traditional leaders for failing to protect sacred sites when allocating land for business and houses, writes Masoka Dube. Fannie Mashaba, a traditional healer based in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, is worried that healers might run out of medicine as indigenous plants a ...
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#1217432019-07-30
Murder of Brazilian indigenous leader a ‘worrying symptom’ of land invasion
In the wake of the murder of indigenous leader Emrya Wajãpi in Brazil, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has called on the country’s authorities to “react quickly and decisively” to protect the rights of indigenous peoples on their lands.
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#1283122021-04-28
Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech
In March 2018, Peter-Lucas Jones and the ten other staff at Te Hiku Media, a small non-profit radio station nestled just below New Zealand’s most northern tip, were in disbelief. In ten days, thanks to a competition it had started, Māori speakers across New Zealand had recorded over 300 hours of ...
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#1232102019-12-02
Mātauranga Māori 'needed' to help fight the world's biodiversity crisis
The world is in the grip of a biodiversity crisis, but the issue is often lost in the loud clamour over climate change. The warming planet is just one of a number of human-made factors including habitat change, invasive species, over-exploitation and pollution pushing the planet to the brink of ...
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#1287982021-05-25
NIYAT: a new project for the Slow Food network in Argentina
Indigenous* leadership in the construction of new forms of local governance for the recognition and access to rights. The word “Niyat” refers to the Wichí name of the traditional leader, who represents a guide and bases his leadership on the knowledge and ability to guide the group in the face o ...
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#1280042021-04-12
Native communities confront painful choice: move away, or succumb to rising waters?
Throughout Indian Country, where cultures are tied to land and water, plans to relocate are under way as the climate crisis worsens At any moment, on any school day, the entire future of the Quileute Tribe is at risk. The Quileute tribal school is located within a stone’s throw from the Pacific ...
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#1319482021-11-26
Natural Resources: Brands Partnering with Indigenous Communities on Forest Conservation
Consumer goods brands and retailers aiming to diminish their climate impacts or even become forest positive can find cost-effective solutions to protect forests when they partner with indigenous communities on the ground.
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#1262222020-12-14
Nature-based solutions by people of nature
The synergy between Nature-based Solutions and traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples can be an important tool for managing climate change.
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#1294002021-06-21
Nepali conservationist among Rolex awardees
Anew generation of Nepali environmental activists is filling the void left by the tragic 2006 Ghunsa crash that saw the loss of many pioneering conservationists including Harka Gurung and Chandra Gurung.
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#1285582021-05-11
New plan recognises sea country connection
The heritage, knowledge, and cultural values of Mandubarra Traditional Owners is now formally captured and will be used to inform future management of their sea country in north Queensland.
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#1320402021-12-03
New science: deep-sea hotspot, Indigenous ocean conservation and more
Protecting nature starts with science. Here’s a roundup of recent research published by Conservation International experts.
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#1289032021-05-27
New sculpture unites traditional knowledge and modern science in Western Australia's south
A first of its kind sculpture that unites traditional knowledge with modern science has been unveiled in Western Australia's Great Southern region.
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#1259162020-12-01
New study shows rights-based conservation as viable path to achieve global biodiversity agenda
With the UN, NGOs and conservationists advocating to place 30 per cent or more of the planet’s terrestrial area under formal conservation by 2030, a new study cautions of the potential costs of using exclusionary conservation approaches to meet those targets.
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#1207292019-04-11
Noble Savages and Other Myths: What Indigenous People Can Teach Us about Biodiversity
The prehistoric environment was created by humans who enhanced biodiversity, altering the plants and animals to suit themselves. Contemporary tribal peoples are still doing this today. The fact that they are the world’s best conservationists is not a “noble savage” romantic fantasy; it can now b ...
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#1252322020-04-22
OPINION: For Indigenous Peoples, isolation is our version of social distancing
For the first time in living memory, the industrialized world understands what it is to be entirely susceptible to disease, as vulnerable as Indigenous Peoples once were to diseases brought by outsiders who colonized our lands. As vulnerable as many Indigenous Peoples still are to the COVID 19 p ...
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#1298032021-07-29
OPINION: Indigenous Peoples are key to a healthier planet
On International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, David Kaimowitz, Senior Forestry Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Manager of the Forest and Farm Facility, explains why empowering Indigenous Peoples can help fight our climate, nature and health cr ...
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#1311822021-10-26
OPINION: Protecting human rights key to safeguarding nature
Last week, leaders from around the world came together at a global summit to negotiate a comprehensive plan to safeguard nature around the world.
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#1263522020-12-18
OPINION: The promise and reality of the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants
How can the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Peasants address the exclusion of – and discrimination against – rural communities worldwide?
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#1268702021-02-04
OPINION: We can’t tackle climate change without indigenous people
Last month, climate change advocates heaved a sigh of relief as President Joe Biden recommitted the United States to the Paris Agreement on climate change, fulfilling one of the major promises of his campaign within hours of his inauguration. The return to the Paris Agreement is an important, if ...
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#1239792020-01-28
Old Growth Forests Are Vital to Indigenous Cultures. We Need to Protect What’s Left
The B.C. government is reviewing its policies to manage the province’s old growth forests and seeking public input.This should be the opportunity for the government to start righting the mistakes of the past.
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#1290922021-06-04
On the Mongolian steppe, conservation science meets traditional knowledge
Vast terrains dominated by grasses, shrubs or sparse trees, rangelands are more than unproductive places where reticent herders graze their livestock and wildlife browse dry — or green, if lucky — meadows.
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#1264222020-12-22
On the frontlines of climate change, communities are using tech to keep tradition alive
Among the Inuit Nunangat communities in far northern Canada, there's a saying: If you smack the ice with your harpoon and it doesn't go through on the first hit, it's thick enough to walk on. If you can hit it three times without it breaking, it's good for snowmobiles. And if you can hit it five ...
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#1236912020-01-13
On the largest freshwater island in the world, Lake Huron’s Native Americans warn of the fragility of water
In their native tongue, the Anishinaabe people have many words for water. There’s nibi, the water you drink. There’s gimewan, the water that falls from the sky. There’s nibiiwsh, the water that wells up in your eyes. There’s biinjinoowaanaabo, the water that breaks before a baby is born.
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#1282202021-04-22
Online project aims to preserve voices, knowledge of First Nations elders
An elder based in Treaty 3 Territory in northwestern Ontario says he hopes a new website will help to preserve traditional Anishinaabe language and culture for generations to come. The recently launched firstnationelders.com features podcasts, videos and songs recorded by elders eager to share ...
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#1218082019-08-06
Opinion: Canada should work with First Nations to avert extinction crisis
It is barely August, and already this summer is marked by record-breaking disasters.
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#1324562022-01-12
Ottawa’s new science grant recipients to tackle complex challenges, including Indigenous-led solutions to stem biodiversity loss
Indigenous solutions for conserving nature while promoting health; machines for preserving organs donated for transplants; strategies for turning discarded ocean byproducts into opportunities for coastal communities.
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#1225842019-10-09
Our Amazon: Brazilians who live in the world's biggest rainforest
Cattle breeders, indigenous teachers and loggers are among the more than 20 million people living in the Amazon in northern Brazil, carving out a living from the world's largest rainforest.
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#1201332019-02-27
Our vanishing cultural resources
Within 100 years, many of our cities will become uninhabitable, submerged under oceans or deadly hot. Food will be more difficult to grow. Storms will become more violent. The gentle planet we’ve known will be no more.
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#1339982022-04-12
Palau adamant youth get a seat at the table in Our Ocean conference
Palau's Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and the Environment Steven Victor says it is significant for Palau to be the first small island developing state to host a large event like Our Ocean.
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#1261632020-12-10
Palm oil, coca and gangs close in on Colombia’s Indigenous Nukak Makú
A group of nomadic hunters who once lived deep in the Amazon is today on the brink of physical and cultural extinction. Though their tribal lands are designated as an Indigenous reservation, their forest was long the site of an armed conflict that plunged Colombia into a wave of violence for mor ...
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#1329362022-02-04
Paraguay’s drought hits biodiversity, Indigenous communities the hardest
The ongoing drought in Paraguay, now moving into its third year, has put increasing pressure on conservation efforts throughout the country to support local communities and protect wildlife.
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#1271272021-02-17
Pay heed to indigenous peoples to tackle climate change
Around 370 million indigenous peoples live on 22% of the world’s land surface. This 22% holds 80% of the earth’s biodiversity. It is estimated that more than 20% of the carbon stored in forests is found in land managed by indigenous peoples. They are preserving vital carbon sinks that play a cri ...
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#1197432019-02-04
People of the Whale – a portrait of traditional hunting in Alaska
People of the Whale is the story of an Iñupiaq whaling crew, living where the vast plain of ice meets the waters of the Arctic Ocean. For the last 2,000 years, the Iñupiaq have stood on the edge of the sea ice, waiting for the migration of bowhead whales.
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#1229002019-11-07
Pharmacy in the jungle study reveals indigenous people's choice of medicinal plants
The Amazon Rainforest produces more than 20 percent of the world's oxygen, 20 percent of the world's fresh water and is home to more than 150,000 species of plants rich in beneficial nutrients, phytochemicals and active elements. Many of these plants are the source of some the most widely used a ...
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#1300392021-08-19
Planet needs Indigenous peoples to help save biodiversity: top rights expert
Under a UN-backed global biodiversity framework draft agreement, countries have agreed to protect 30 per cent of the planet and restore at least 20 per cent by 2030.
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#1319772021-11-29
Plants and animals of Noongar Nation break new ground in Indigenous knowledge tool
The Noongar Boodjar plant and animal encyclopaedia will link Indigenous species names with western scientific (both Latin and Common) names, as well as ancestral ecological and cultural knowledge chosen to be shared by local communities across more than 90 plant and animal species.